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Questions around the environmental footprint of housing

Is housing construction needed any more in Switzerland? How should the existing housing stock be improved? How can landlords make their tenants' life more sustainable? ...

2020

Cooperative or undifferentiated: Two visions for housing

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

Throughout Europe, the dominant housing production practices of the last century seem to be running out of steam. Housing is looking for a future. The weakening of the power of the state, the instability of the markets and the ecological emergency have led ...

University of Nottingham2020

Housing Urban Masses Around a Green Yard. Typological comparison of modern examples in Copenhagen and Stockholm

Chiara Monterumisi

Since the aftermath of the II world-war till recent years, Nordic countries have looked as inspiring social and architectural models to the rest of Europe. Nevertheless, very few attentions have been addressed towards the first bases of their developments, ...

2020

Beyond Classical Allusions: Stockholm Mass Housing Experiments Before 1930

Chiara Monterumisi

The 1930 Stockholm exhibition was promoted as a breaking point in Swedish architecture, especially for its proposals for novel housing production and design. Starting from that moment, Swedish building initiatives progressively gained worldwide acclaim on ...

ArkDes - Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design2020

Housing functions: towards a new understanding of flexibility in architecture

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Ivo Philippe Baur

The durability of buildings plays a key role for the sustainability of cities and the communities inhabiting them. However, the progressive loss in the last three centuries of the ability to alter buildings - in favor of a more controlled design and operat ...

2020

The Neigborhood Unit: Relevance of an architectural tool

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi

Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...

2020

The Neighbourhood Unit. The relevance of an architectural tool

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi

2020

Typological Problems of Housing in Vienna and Frankfurt

Alessandro Porotto

The purpose of this paper is to consider a number of valuable architectural accomplishments from the beginning of the XX century, built in Vienna (1919-1933) and Frankfurt am Main (1925-1931), by means of Aldo Rossi’s theoretical thought and analytical app ...

Il Poligrafo2020

Nuove forme dell'abitare

Marson Korbi

With the crisis of Fordist capitalism and the rise of “cognitive capitalism”, the ‘knowledge worker’ became a crucial figure in contemporary cities. In such a context, once away from the sphere of the family, after concluding the university studies, for th ...

Politecnico di Bari e Università Roma Tre2020

Giedion goes to Stockholm. A look at Swedish efforts in the social and housing question

Chiara Monterumisi

During one of his many trips around Europe to observe the state of contemporary architecture, Sigfried Giedion went to Stockholm in 1930. On returning to Zurich, he published two extensive pa-pers about the city and the Stockholm Exhibition. The goal here ...

AISU International2020

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